That does indeed work, but the URL for the specific page is still displayed in the path on the browser

I'm not sure what you mean. If you put:

print "Location: /icons/left.gif\n\n";
[download]

at /cgi/leftarrow, it'll run the script and display a left arrow, but the URL will still remain the CGI location. I thought that's what you wanted.

Actually, you may be running a non-standard web server (something other than Apache). If that's the case, you should disclose that so I stop trying to bring Apache-specific knowledge into the discussion.

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